DocumentCode
415561
Title
Pricing of multi-product bundles to match supply and demand
Author
Yasar, A-U-H
Author_Institution
Dept. of Decision Sci. & Eng. Syst., Rensselaer Polytech. Inst., Troy, NY, USA
fYear
2004
fDate
38093
Firstpage
7
Lastpage
14
Abstract
We provide a framework to price bundles that contain multiple products in a way to match supply and demand, more specifically we extend the framework developed by Schlamensee (1984) who considers the case of a bundle that contains two products. In Schmalensee (1984) the correlation structure among reservation prices (maximum price that a customer pays to acquire a product) for the two products within each consumer is analyzed by assuming that buyer´s reservation price pairs follow a bivariate normal distribution. We extend this two-product bundle framework into a multiproduct bundle case by modeling the reservation prices within each consumer follow a multivariate normal distribution. We then analyze the implications of using multivariate normal distribution on several pricing aspects of the bundle and finally develop rules to price the bundle in order to match supply and demand, rather than the standard objectives such as profit maximization or cost minimization.
Keywords
Poisson distribution; correlation methods; marketing; normal distribution; pricing; supply and demand; bivariate normal distribution; buyer reservation price; correlation structure; cost minimization; multiproduct bundle pricing; multivariate normal distribution; profit maximization; supply and demand; Assembly; Costs; Gaussian distribution; Internet; Marketing and sales; Packaging; Pricing; Standards development; Supply and demand; Systems engineering and theory;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Systems and Information Engineering Design Symposium, 2004. Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE
Conference_Location
IEEE
Print_ISBN
0-9744559-2-X
Type
conf
Filename
1314657
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